The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-22
"IOWA NOT A LOYAL STATE"
a RebuI<e to the Ex-Confederate and Cop
perhcad Critics.

perhcad Critics.
The Des Moines Register says The
Democratic papers of the North as well as
the South are hastily joining the ex- Con-
federates of ST. Louis III their pursuit and
abuse of General futile. They are not
only assailing General futile, but are
using the opportunity for tie expression of
Democratic hatred for the State and people
of Iowa also. The Chicago HerGib, IA sort
of a reduced picture in shadow of the Chi
cago Times. leads off in the following re-
markable statement, trying TO show that
Missouri and Kentucky were more loyal
States during the war than Iowa:
futile, The spokesman of the Iowa
Grand Army of tie Republic, not only OBJ
iects to the presence OF the Rebel Presi-
dent Cleveland at the reunion of the veter-
ans in ST. Louis, but be says it is a mis-
take to hold the reunion in a rebel State
at ALL This is rather large talk for a citi-
zen of State that furnished fewer soldiers
than either Missouri or kentucky. The
record of enlistments in the three States
on the three-years standard is as follows:
kentucky Observation-Disclosures. $50. 1882
MISSOURI. ..............''.'''.''.' 20 ~
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IF futile is a representative Iowa man,
Missouri sent ten times as many soldiers
into the Union armies in 1S6l-'G5 as Iowa
would now should any trouble arise. Mis-
souri, had its rebels in the late war, but it
will be seen from the above figures that it
was by $1,000 men more of n Union State
than Iowa was.
The st. Louis Republican, the organ of
Missouri rebels during the war and since,
has paragraph of the same tenor. Even
the keokuk Constitution of this State re-
echoes the SANDER of its own State, in
favor Of the rebellious States of Kentucky
and Missouri. Let us look at the figures
of the Her0id in its Democratic indictment
of this State. We presume it makes all its
figures on q three-year basis of service.
Iowa sent all told about eighty thousand
men into the Union army. Figured on a
three-year basis II had the number that the
Herald gives it. In making lis Democratic
parade, and showing its Copperhead hatred
of Union soldiers and the States that stand
10y Union soldiers, it has the impudence to
assert that Iowa has no reason to question
the loyalty of Kentucky and Missouri, be-
cause kthey sent more men TO the Union
army than it did. This is rank dishonesty
on the face of it, in the body of it, and all
around it. Al the outbreak of the war Iowa
was a State only fifteen years old. 1t was
admitted TO the Union as late as Dec. %,
1916. kentucky was admitted in June of
1892; Missouri in August of 1921. Accord
ing to the Federal census Iowa then had
but GA, 9l3 populations; Kentucky Lib
6S4 populations; Missouri l,lS2.0l2 popu-
lation. But this paper of rank dishonesty
at Chicago, with an ill-concealed hatred d
both OF the loyal soldiers and the loyal
States, assumes TO put this young State of
small population in comparison with the
old States of large population. Nothing
but a man who was Copperhead or a
rebel during the war, with the sentiment
that actuated him then still lingering in his
breast, could resort to such defamation OF
a loyal State and its soldiers.